Conceptualism and contextualism in the recent historiography of Newton's \textit{Principia}.

DOI10.1016/S0315-0860(03)00051-XzbMath1053.01010OpenAlexW2010786829MaRDI QIDQ1421931

Niccolò Guicciardini

Publication date: 3 February 2004

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0315-0860(03)00051-x

zbMATH Keywords

PrincipiaNewtonhistoriography of mathematicsfluxional method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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